Wants disclosure for executive pay...

BUSINESS SEC

January 18, 2006

BUSINESSSEC wants disclosure for executive pay Publicly traded companies for the first time would be required to furnish tables in annual filings showing the total yearly compensation for their chairmen, chief financial officers and the next three highest-paid executives. The true costs to the bottom line of the executives' pay packages, including stock options, would have to be spelled out, according to a Tuesday proposal from the SEC. C8LOCALThese Ralphs always getting mixed up Ralph Szymanski, a veteran South Bend firefighter, started to put on a new uniform one day at Station 11 and it wouldn't fit. Not even close. Come on, he hadn't gained that much weight. Over at Station 4, Ralph Szymanski, a first-year firefighter, couldn't squeeze into his uniform. Was somebody razzing this rookie? "I guess that's when we found out there were two of us and both of us on the fire department," says Ralph the Younger. B1Duerson pleads guilty to domestic battery Former University of Notre Dame football player and trustee David R. Duerson pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery. The case had been scheduled for trial in the afternoon. The charge stemmed from an incident nearly a year ago in which Duerson was accused of striking his wife, Alicia, during an argument early Feb. 3 in their room at the Morris Inn on campus. The couple was in South Bend for Duerson to attend a board of trustees meeting. B2NATION/WORLDSeveral nations pursue U.N. action on Iran Pressure on Iran intensified Tuesday, with key European countries and the United States moving ahead with plans to refer Tehran to the U.N. Security Council and Israel vowing not to let the Iranians develop nuclear weapons. But Russia and China -- Iran's past backers -- urged negotiations instead of confrontation, casting doubt on whether next month's International Atomic Energy Agency meeting will demonstrate a unified political will. A6Doctor tells progress on face transplant French doctors treating the world's first face transplant patient say she suffered a tissue-rejection episode that threatened to cost her her new features, but she is doing well now -- so well that the surgeons hope to do five more such operations soon. She can swallow and eat. That was impossible before the surgery. "Psychologically, she's very happy," said Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard, a surgeon from Lyon, France. A5